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Reply to "I can't stop the itching and burning - HELP!"

Here's a reply I posted to a similar question.  Sorry for the "used" comment, but saves a lot of typing:

So sorry this has become chronic for you.  It happens to me maybe once every two or three months.  I think I have it narrowed down to eggs.  Anyway...the pain is simply indescribable, but I'll try: it's like a breathing-paralyzing, wide-eyed, out-of-body experience, spinning-through-the-Milky-Way-seeing-stars type of pain.  The bidet helps all of the normal stuff except this. 

I recently found the one thing that has cut the pain to the point where I can breathe again:  5% lidocaine cream in the hemorrhoid department at Walgreen's.  Walgreen's brand.  Around $20 for the tube.  I'm sure any 5% lidocaine cream will help, but I've never found 5% anywhere else.  4% is prevalent, but not 5%.  I haven't inquired, but I suppose my GI doc could prescribe something even stronger if it's available.  Anyway...after bideting and drying, yes, it does need to be applied "inside".  But, it works.

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